15 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

C + '.2

Note ?

Ch.10. Seat Traffic

'.2. Objections insufficient

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Note (a)

(a) Be not deceived - and lest ye be deceived, be not governed and led captive by names /suffer not your understanding /judgment/ to be blinded /fascinated/ by concord or melody of sweet sounds/. Be not led by names /words/ to approve and reprobate the same thing, when presented under different names. Be not led to approve or to reprobate two things of opposite natures, because presented under different names. Be not led to approve or to reprobate two things of opposite natures, because presented under the same name.

There are services services in abundance which a man may sell without prejudice to his probity /the moral purity of his mind/: there are others which he can not. Every Merchant /Dealer/ - every illiterate[?] or retard[?] is venal in respect of the articles which having bought them for sale he sells. Every Husbandman, fisherman, miner, manufacturer, every handicraft is venal in respect of the articles which having made for sale he sells. /and in that respect venal, and the term venality applicable without injustice to his conduct/

Every medical man every instructor in every lane[?] of instruction is a hireling in respect of the services for the rendering of which he receives takes a reward.

Every professional lawyer, whether Attorney or Advocate is a hireling with the same trusts[?] and propriety in respect of such services as in that his character it lies in his way to render: but in a moral point of view between these two branches of the same profession observe how great the difference.

The Attorney in his character of conveyancer may sell his services without any prejudice to his /the/ moral purity, unless taking advantage of the licence given by the pretended declarers and real makers of the law he allows himself to drown in the usual quantity /sea/ of surplusage the ideas which the nature of the instrument /conveyance or agreement/ /legal disposition/ he has to frame requires to be presented to view /expressed/.

The Attorney in his character of agent to him whose misfortune it is to stand in the situation of party in any seat depending in /before/ any of the regular judicatories may sell his services without any prejudice to the moral purity /purity of the moral part/ of his mind, unless {he allows himself to take advantage} in favour of the oppressor in the character /station/ of plaintiff or of the deeds[?] of a just denounced[?] in the character of defendant, or more immediately /in a more immediate way/ in his own favour, by swelling the amount of his own bill, he allows himself to take advantage of any of the numerous contrivances which by the same reverend and learned arbiters of human destiny have been provided for affording, for the sake of the profit extractable out of the expence, the means of giving encrease without bounds to the quantum /mass/ of judicial /factitious/ delay, vexation and expense, for encouraging groundless demands and defences by enabling the work to triumph over the better cause.